The Obedience of Shadows

In the nation of Veridora, a charismatic psychology professor recruits five rejected students for a study on bureaucratic obedience, mirroring the infamous disability claim denials that crushed their families. What begins as a controlled experiment swiftly spirals into a series of ritualistic murders, each target a former social security adjudicator. As the bodies mount, one detective must untangle a web of manipulated loyalty and discover that every victim once denied a desperate claimant, revealing a horrifying truth: the experiment never ended, it only found a new, bloodier directive.